Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) is a documentary you can watch online on iFILM. Alex Gibney traces how the seventh-largest company in America dissolved within weeks, dragging down the pensions of thousands of workers and the savings of ordinary investors.

The film follows the money from the first accounting tricks to the morning the stock traded for pennies. Peter Coyote narrates, while actual recordings catch energy traders laughing as they shut down power plants to spike prices during California's blackouts. Kenneth Lay, Jeffrey Skilling and Andrew Fastow get their schemes laid bare in plain language anyone can follow. The tagline cuts deep: it's just business.

Built on the book by reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, the film was up for the Best Documentary Oscar. A cold, lucid autopsy of corporate greed that hasn't aged a day. Stream Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) online on iFILM.